SMH Good Food Guide 2009 - Joanna Savill & Simon Thomsen
The 2009 Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide was launched this week with Quay in Sydney taking out the top restaurant. A complete list of winners can be found here
The Good Food Guide has been the Sydney food industry standard for 25 years. Order your copy now.
Links and Further Reading
2009 Winner Video
Winners & Losers
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Life in Seven Mistakes - Susan Johnson
“An Australian writer is at the peak of her powers in this confident novel.” - Louise Swinn smh.com.au August 9 2008
Life in Seven Mistakes follows the fortunes of the Barton family. Beginning with a fractious and disagreeable family Christmas in an apartment on the Gold Coast, we then step half a century into the past [...]
Breaking Dawn Release Imminent
Breaking Dawn the new novel by Stephenie Meyer has to be one of the most anticipated books of the year if the traffic BookOffers.com.au has been receiving over the last few months.
As we prepare for the books release on August 4 (a few days later than the US) we thought we’d bring you a round [...]
The Last Oil Shock - David Strahan
I just finished reading what I consider to be one of the most important books of the Year. This is a must read! - Editor Bookoffers.com.au
This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the [...]
Tribute - Nora Roberts
The instant bestseller - Nora Roberts latest novel explodes up the charts to debut at #1 this week.
“Warning: Do not begin this book late in the day - unless you plan to pull an all-nighter. Because once you start “Tribute,” you won’t want to put it down.” - Miami Herald
Sometimes those closest to us can [...]
Netherland - Joseph O’Neill
“A man adrift in his adopted home after 9/11 finds inspiration among the city’s immigrant dreamers” - James Bradley smh.com.au July 12 2008
In London, a Dutch banker named Hans van den Broek hears the news, and remembers his unlikely friendship with Chuck and the off–kilter New York in which it flourished: the New York of [...]
The Condition - Jennifer Haigh
With great intelligence and subtlety, Haigh gradually shows how everyone has his or her particular “condition” and it is inseparable from personality, behaviour and fate.” Kerryn Goldsworthy smh.com.au July 5 2008
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the McKotches, a New England family in extremis. Paulette and Frank McKotch, long divorced, hide [...]
This Charming Man - Marian Keyes
This Charming Man is the new novel by Marian Keyes. It has already rocketed into the top 10 this week
‘Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard Paddy de Courcy was getting married’
But for four women in particular, the big news about the gorgeous politician is especially momentous…
Stylist Lola has every reason to be [...]
Things The Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Everett
Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Everett. The extraordinary true life story of songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, lead singer of the band The Eels. Bruce Elder writing in the Sydney Morning Herald this weekend said
“There have been a lot of good books about the pain and anguish of adolescence and this one, by [...]
Book of the Week - People of the Book
This weeks Book of the Week is Geraldine Brooks latest bestseller - People of the Book.
From her website
Available now, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, an intricate, ambitious novel that traces the journey of a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript from convivencia Spain to the ruins of Sarajevo, from the Silver Age of Venice to [...]
